PEAK:AIO drives UK effort to bring down cost of medicine
PEAK:AIO, a software specialist in data infrastructure for AI and GPU applications, is now involved in the University of Strathclyde's MediForge Hub, an initiative aiming to "redefine" pharmaceutical manufacturing...
VDURA talks up energy-efficient HPC systems for utilities
VDURA, a specialist in HPC data infrastructure and management solutions, is to highlight its next generation data platform at the 18th annual Energy High Performance Computing (HPC) Conference later...
Flash-centric Regatta OLxP database working on faster access for AI agents
Israeli startup Regatta is building a scale-out, transactional (OLTP), analytic (OLAP) relational database (OLxP) with extensibility to semi-structured and unstructured data. The company says it is a drop-in replacement...
Storage news ticker – February 3
The UK-based part of Rubrik Backup-as-a-Service supplier ADP (Assured Data Protection) is partnering cyber-security, comms and tech MSP Wavenet – the UK's largest independent IT MSP – to provide...
WEKA boosts GenAI speed with Mooncake vLLM tech
File system provider WEKA wants to make its customers’ GenAI models respond faster by using a vLLM Mooncake tech combination.
This was revealed in a blog post by new hire Val...
Kioxia open sources AiSAQ tech to cut DRAM use in RAG
Kioxia AiSAQ technology, designed to reduce DRAM requirements in generative AI systems, was this week released as open source software.
AiSAQ, otherwise known as "all-in-storage ANNS with product quantization," provides...
Quantum Myriad supports 122.9 TB SSDs and in-place system scaling
Quantum is adding incremental, in-place system scaling with dynamic, automatic data leveling to its Myriad all-flash file system, along with 122.88 TB Solidigm SSD support.
Myriad is a containerized, scale-out...
Western Digital’s disk-driven quarter spins revenues higher
A 41 percent year-on-year disk-based revenue rise for Western Digital’s second fiscal 2025 quarter kept it ahead of Seagate in the disk drive market and sets the scene for...
RiverMeadow flows on-premises Pure Storage workloads to the cloud
Workload and data mobility player RiverMeadow has upgraded its platform to help extend Pure Storage's on-premises Evergreen storage-as-a-service to the cloud.
RiverMeadow says it offers its Workload Mobility Platform and...
Storage news ticker – January 24
Observability and data management supplier Apica announced a Freemium version of its Ascent offering, providing free access to an enterprise-grade telemetry pipeline and intelligent observability, processing up to 1 TB/month...
SK hynix hits record profit powered by AI memory demand
High-bandwidth memory demand, fueled by AI-focused GPU servers, has propelled SK hynix revenues and net income to record highs for the fourth 2024 quarter and full year.
The company reported...
Hitachi Vantara CTO Jason Hardy on the company’s storage refresh
Interview. Blocks & Files sat down with Jason Hardy, Hitachi Vantara Vice President and CTO for AI, to discuss the company's ongoing storage strategy refresh and how it's unifying...